ETF2L Highlander Community Challenge

The days of two Engineers, three Spies and six Snipers on your team are over. The European Team Fortress 2 League invites you to play TF2 like you've never played it before: competitively. Head-to-head against other communities. In front of hundreds of people. For shiny medals.

The ETF2L Highlander Community Challenge was a Highlander tournament hosted by the European Team Fortress 2 League (ETF2L) and supported by Valve. Aimed at bringing new players into competitive play, the tournament called for teams of non-competitive players to battle for prizes.

Standard competitive rules were used, such as no Critical hits and use of Tournament and Stopwatch modes. However, contrary to all other ETF2L events, every weapon other than those released in the Polycount Pack (with the exception of the Holy Mackerel) was allowed to be used during matches.

The Round 3 default map was changed to Badwater Basin as Steel was rendered unable to load after the Australian Christmas patch.

The decider map for matches played in the knockout phase was Viaduct.

Ladder

In addition to the Highlander Challenge, a Highlander Ladder was announced that ran prior to the tournament. Unlike the tournament, the ladder was open to all players, allowing teams the opportunity to practice against each other as well as competitive players before the event started. The ladder used an ELO ranking system.

Prizes

Tournament medals will be redeemable from the ETF2L website. Despite the medals being listed in the Mann Co. Catalogue and the models having been implemented into the game, players can currently only see if they are eligible to receive a medal.

Players on the 1st place team earn a golden Highlander Community Challenge in-game medal.

Players on the 2nd place team earn a silver Highlander Community Challenge in-game medal.

Players on the 3rd place team earn a bronze Highlander Community Challenge in-game medal.

All players who complete their games earn a participation Highlander Community Challenge in-game medal.

1st place medal

2nd place medal

3rd place medal

Participation medal

Coverage

Matches allowed spectators, and the competition was covered by various competitive TF2 websites and communities including ETF2L Radio, PwnageTV and ExTV, TF2TV, Community Fortress, Cadred and VanillaTF2.